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| Introduction: North American Culture and Its Challenges to Sacred Sound | p. 1 |
| Reconstructing the Past: Sacred Sound from the Bible to Reform | |
| Introduction | p. 11 |
| Jewish Liturgical Music from the Bible to Hasidism | p. 13 |
| Jewish Liturgical Music in the Wake of Nineteenth-Century Reform | p. 59 |
| Christian Liturgical Music from the Bible to the Renaissance | p. 84 |
| Christian Liturgical Music in the Wake of the Protestant Reformation | p. 124 |
| Exploring the Present: Sacred Sound in North America Today | |
| Introduction | p. 147 |
| Catholic Prophetic Sound after Vatican II | p. 150 |
| Present Stress and Current Problems: Music and Reformed Churches | p. 174 |
| The Hymnal as an Index of Musical Change in Reform Synagogues | p. 187 |
| Composing Sacred Sounds: Four New Settings of Psalm 136 | |
| Introduction and Instructions to the Composers | p. 215 |
| The Roman Catholic Tradition | p. 221 |
| The Methodist Tradition | p. 235 |
| The Jewish Tradition | p. 255 |
| The Episcopal Tradition | p. 274 |
| Critiquing Sacred Sound: Perspectives on the Sacred and the Secular | |
| Introduction | p. 287 |
| Sacred Music in a Secular Age | p. 289 |
| A Petition for a Visionary Black Hymnody | p. 300 |
| Enculturation, Style, and the Sacred-Secular Debate | p. 314 |
| Conclusion: On Swimming Holes, Sound Pools, and Expanding Canons | p. 324 |
| Index | p. 341 |
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